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She is a cry baby just like you. What you are promulgating is for everyone else to shut up and nobody should ever points out her inanity. You live in a fascist bubble. Try to get out more.

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Jake: Here are my brief responses to Mackey's latest defenses of his prior cowardly defenses of the speech-intolerant corporate board of Whole Foods (a company he just might potentially have some influence in). My comments are bolded, in case anyone cares to differentiate my comments from John Mackey's. In his last reply, he backs away from his earlier points, and states that decision-making at Whole Foods is decentralized to the store level. If this is true, then I've won a reversal of his prior position.

Earlier, Mackey defended his regional board's decision which had stated that this “decentralization” was actually not the case. (In fact, this is also what store managers in Dallas, and St Louis had said to me. They had all said that “corporate policy forbids petitioning on Whole Foods property, even if it's out in the parking lot.”) To me, it looks like John prefers to not attract the controversy that is associated with un-libertarian actions (even though he often defends the decisions behind those un-libertarian actions). This is good, because it reaffirms the power of the boycott, and of social ostracization when it is used to shape un-libertarian action. The boycott is hated and feared by those who stand against the free market. The boycott is a tool of voluntaryism, par excellence.

John Mackey
Here is the letter I sent to Jake yesterday after a couple of my libertarian friends circulated his recent rambling diatribe against all things John Mackey to various libertarians.

Dear Jake,

You appear to be an unusually angryMy friends don't think so, judgmental I am judgmental, since judgments keep garbage and falsely-labeled things out of my life, and intolerant person.
And you appear to love wealth more than liberty. Should I tolerate your statements to that effect without response? Or should I respect your right to make such statements while taking umbrage with the statements themselves?
I seem to be guilty of the worst crime imaginable—disagreement with you.
No, the “crime” you are guilty of is “not caring about your freedom, or anyone else's, as you chase Federal Reserve Notes”. …At least, not caring enough to write a letter to your corporate board.
For that I’m a “heretic”heretic is a poor choice of words, since “hypocrite” is more accurate, and I'm not religious—not really a libertarian after all and therefore deserving of the kind of vitriol that you spew out below.
Yep, I think you deserve some criticism, since you are in a position to help remove the state's boot from the Libertarian Party's neck, by simply writing a letter to your corporate board, and yet you refuse to do so. Infringement with elections known as ballot access laws are a huge cost to the LP, you are in a position to render them less effective by writing a letter that only you can write, and you refuse to do so.
Perhaps a few corrections are in order for your most blatant misconceptions:

I don’t own Whole Foods Market. I never implied that you did.I’m not a “grocery store owner”. I never implied that you were, and this general argument of yours is a red herring.Whole Foods is a publicly traded Texas corporation. the red herring continuesI co-founded the company back in 1978 (perhaps before you were born—you seem to be very young?)
ad hominem distraction, which is fine, since I've used a few ad-hominem attacks against Mackey as well
and am the CEO.
Do you think the corporate board would listen to a sincere request from the CEO? I do.
However, I own less than 1% of the company—it isn’t my company and it isn’t my personal property. It is not my toy that I can do whatever I wish with.
Do you think the corporate board would listen to a sincere request from the CEO? I do.
I do not force my beliefs or values upon other people—not my political beliefs (libertarian), spiritual beliefs (perennialist), my economic beliefs (free markets), or dietary beliefs (vegan).
Do you think the corporate board would listen to a sincere request from the CEO? I do. Moreover, your political views manifest themselves in the arena of government force, and thus effect other people. As do your political actions, or lack of political action. Your economic views are also political views, since they refer to the economic manifestation of your political beliefs. The other views you possess are your private views, and are not topical to this discussion.

As the CEO of Whole Foods Market I have legal, ethical, and fiduciary responsibilities to help the company flourish as well as possible.
Do you think that allowing ballot access petitions to be circulated in front of your stores would interfere with your fiduciary responsibilities? This is a misperception that is very popular in corporate America today. If you believe so, you are either ignorant, or a liar (neither of which is compatible with a strong view in favor of individual liberty). Moreover, can the Libertarian Party possibly win freedom and a freer market by making it on the ballot? Might not existing in such a freer market help you to better serve those fiduciary interests, or do you not actually believe the things that you say you believe? Keep in mind that you could easily do what Wal Mart did in California, and post a sign that states: “Whole Foods supports free expression, and thus allows the public to circulate petitions in front of our stores. Whole Foods does not endorse, favor, or denounce petitions that are circulated by the general public.”

Such flourishing means not forcing my various beliefs upon other people. And noone asked you to force anything on anyone, so I'm glad we're on the same page.
It means empowering other people to make their own decisions, even when I disagree with them.
And apparently, this remains true, even when those “other people's decisions” empower the police state to take everyone else's rights away! Those other people also “work for you” since you own less than 1% of the company. Your statement and your position are not legally wrong, but they are cowardly, and do nothing to enhance or defend freedom. In fact, they cave into active tyranny.
I am true to my own beliefs. I believe my political beliefs are consistent with libertarianism as I understand the meaning of that phrase.And in this belief, you are wrong. Freedom isn't free, as thousands of quotations from many great thinkers can inform you. If you don’t think I’m a “true libertarian” then you are of course free to express your opinion, but why so much hatred towards me Jake? Because you could easily call your company's dogs off instead of sicking them on me and other libertarian petitioners. You could easily suggest that Whole Foods respect the circulation of political petitions, and it would help change our world in favor of the freedom you say you believe in. But you refuse to do so, lest it get in the way of your corporate board being able to exercise their prerogative to silence political expression, even when their store managers would prefer to allow it.What is that all about dude? Dude, I just told you. Try getting told to shut up or be arrested when you're speaking in defense of ballot access (necessary for achieving the bare minimum level of social liberty necessary to avoid a violent rebellion). …It's not a pleasant experience. Then try having the jerk who allowed the cops to be called on you tell you that he's a libertarian too, “Now, take him away, officer!” …Dude.We have never even met and I’ve never done you any harm.
Nope, your corporate board has though, and that's what this is about, “Dude”. They are one more group of intolerant jerks who have created a culture of fascism in America, even though their CEO (John Mackey) could easily “make it go away”, he refuses to. Thus, the only libertarian-operated grocery store is not a leader or a sanctuary for open speech, it is a laggard. Good thing there are companies like Giant Foods that respect free speech enough to not cave in to the advice of their corporate lawyers.
There is no Board of Directors ban on petition circulating in front of our stores as you claim. Then why did you admit that there was when you emailed me, and when you defended their policy? I have no idea where you got this false idea, but it certainly wasn’t from the letter I wrote to you. Untrue*As I told you in the letter, these decisions are made locally. Untrue. Your local store managers claim –as you did in your first letter to me– that their regional policy is to disallow petitioning.Our company is decentralized and part of what decentralization means is that people at the local level make these kinds of decisions. Can I quote you on that to the next store manager to tell me that their regional policy forbids petitioning? Also, if this is so, then why did you defend your regional board of directors' decision to me in your first email? Why not simply contradict what I had been told by your store managers?Your gripe shouldn’t be with me, but with the local management where you are trying to petition. Believe me, if you had written back to me the first time, and instead of defending a corporate decision, you had told me “We decentralize things to our store managers”. We never would have had this exchange. Unfortunately, that's not what happened, and not what you wrote. You need to persuade them, not me. Well, now, this is interesting. It appears that you've backpedaled, after having realized your earlier arguments were without merit. If that's the case, then I guess that it would have been really nice to have this to show to the store manager of yours in St Louis who allowed me to petition at one of your stores in 2006, and then regretfully kicked me out. He apologized, and said that he would prefer to allow me there, but that “Whole Foods' corporate policy doesn't allow petitioning in front of their stores”

Whole Foods exists to fulfill its Core Values. Bland corporate-speak doesn't really turn me on, John, but if you want to give it to me, then I guess I'll take it.It doesn’t exist to promote(this is a popular 'red-herring' fallacious argument favored by soulless corporate America. A corporation's customers' ignorant belief that “all speech which takes place on company property is promoted by the company” is then taken by the company as a valid defense for disallowing speech on their property. The morally right thing to do is to disabuse customers of this view, by simply informing them that they are not promoting the speech that they nonetheless choose to allow. Since the belief is not true, it need not be catered to.) any particular cause in the world except for selling the highest quality natural and organic food available. Ignoring the fact that we never asked Whole Foods to “promote” anything, but rather to simply stand aside as we circulated a ballot access petition, this begs a question: Will Whole Foods be allowed to sell that “quality” food in a communist America? My guess is that “the highest quality natural and organic food” will be very unavailable in a statist mixed economy. For instance, right now, Whole Foods is forbidden by the ACS, AMA, and FDA to sell apricot kernels that contain cancer-fighting vitamin B17 in California, thus failing to sell the highest quality natural and organic food available. (Since those kernels are available at Hunzakut markets and independent healthfood over the internet in CA, they are available elsewhere.) There are many other examples about how a loss of freedom directly impinges on your ability to serve your customers. Interfering with speech on your property not only makes this tyranny possible, but much cheaper for the police state. May I humbly suggest that you start your own business and you can manage it anyway that you want to? Oh, so now is that earlier stuff that you said about “not having any ability” to impact your corporate board's evil decisions not true? You insinuate that you have control over “your business” after insinuating that you “don't have control over it”? Gee, I guess you must take me for the same kind of fool that worships you because you're successful and call yourself a libertarian.Perhaps you might learn a few things about people, life, and business while actually creating something of value.
Yeah, you're right, John. I guess there's no value in ballot access. Only 175,000,000 innocent people have been killed by countries that didn't allow elections in the last 100 years. I guess those people didn't have any value John, and I guess that a choice at the ballot box woudn't have presented anything of value to them. They probably never bought any organic groceries, John. Remind me why you call yourself a libertarian, if it wasn't to increase personal choice? I'm glad that you think that putting up with cops, Whole Foods (TM) security, public ignorance, intolerance, hostility, and bad weather to allow that choice is “not creating something of value”.
I do not really understand why you hate me and Whole Foods so much Jake. I don't hate you, John. I dislike you. The reason why I dislike you, is because your corporate board made a decision to disallow speech in front of Whole Foods stores, and rather than say “That's horrible! …Thanks for letting me know about that so I can try to change it.” …You defended their decision with bland corporate speak, presumably because you thought that tolerating speech might get in the way of a few sales. Furthermore, you falsely characterized me as a thug who wants to force you to force your board to reverse their decision. Furthermore, you mistakenly called me an angry person who resorts to anger and insulting diatribes without indicating that I first pursued all available avenues of polite interaction.I have never personally wronged you—just disagreed with you. Your security personally wronged me, by threatening to call the cops on me. They did so in a way that should be legal, and in a way that would be legal in a libertarian society, but it was still “wrong”, since we live in a fascist country, and appeasance of that fascism is cowardice, and cowardice –while rightly legal– is “wrong”. However, your vitriolic hatred will not successfully promote libertarian values and you will cause far more harm than good in the world. John, you misread my dislike of you as “vitriolic hatred”. That's too bad, but since I have schooled you in the ways of “how not to be a hypocrite”, I expect it. Too bad I couldn't more realistically expect the simple gratitude that would have been given me by an actual libertarian.

Best regards,

John

Best regards. If and when I have a Grocery store chain, I will be sure to have you politely, but forcibly removed from it, should you dare to speak while on my property, no matter how little problem you are causing(or what value you are creating). I will then hide behind corporate policy that would be easy for me to change. I will then call myself a libertarian, while in actuality I will be defending the fascist silencing of free speech that makes every tyranny possible (including the ones that I myself would then vocally and publicly complain about). Then, I would be a complete hypocrite, and take the side of a public debate that criticizes corporations that “don't honor the public good”, and exist solely for shareholder profit. …One good turn deserves another, John.

To everyone else on this Board: This will be my last post here. For that libertarian action alone, I thank you. I seem to be some kind of “heretic””hypocrite” brought before”criticized by” the forceless and voluntary “Libertarian Inquisition” of Andy and Jakelibertarians in deed for daring to falselycall myself a “free market libertarian”a word that properly describes those who favor the doctrine of free will, while not being willing to command the conversion of Whole Foods Market to the “truth faith” or even a simple respect for the most basic of American freedoms. As such, Whole Foods would tolerate the polite ballot access petitioning –nevermind political speech– which makes the existence of the Libertarian Party possible, in front of their stores. that Andy and Jake believe they representWe have made no such representation, although we do favor the free market, and have done a lot of work for Libertarian Party ballot access.. My political “faith” is obviously not pure enough for these two guys and a special place in hell is apparently reserved for me. I don't believe hell exists, unless it's a fascist regime without elections here on earth. If this is the case, then by your passive appeasement of your company's evil policy that passively tolerates pure fascism, perhaps you have earned a place in hell, although I doubt it will be special. You'll probably have enough cash to buy your way out of it though, since raking in the FRNs is obviously your foremost concern. I’ve never really enjoyed exchanging communications with intolerant fanatics of any persuasion so I won’t do so any longer on this Board.That's a nice little ad hominem attack. Looks like we've touched a nerve. I bet you don't fare any better with your corporate board though. They sound pretty intolerant to me. No wonder you weren't willing to buck them. (Or did you finally buck them, and simply not want to admit it?) Best wishes to everyone here. I hope you have a great 2009. Take care–John. Divide and conquer, I guess. The carrot for everyone who isn't Jake or Andy –who hasn't dealt with my intolerant and speech-restrictive corporation– the stick for Andy and Jake. Whatever.

With friends like John Mackey, the number of places where speech is tolerated will continue to shrink. Since all tyranny first requires silence and appeasement, it's my guess that when libertarians acquiesce to the preservation of evil on their that they have control over, they dramatically speed the downfall of liberty.

For years, libertarian activists who preserve ballot access for the Libertarian Party have been praying for a libertarian-directed grocery store company that does business in all 50 states, wondering why most of them were so intolerant towards speech, especially when they so rarely saw capitalist speech. We need no longer wonder, since Mackey's first answer is very forthright: the board of directors' corporate lawyers advised against speech. How daring! How libertarian. It's a good thing that companies in the Weimar Republic didn't cave in so quickly to the silencing of free speech. …Oh, wait, they did.

In the main body above, I indicated that John Mackey had stated an untruth. He states that he decentralizes the decision-making to his stores. The only reason why this exchange happened at all was because
1) His store managers insisted that they would personally prefer to allow me to stay and petition for John Mackey's political party to be tolerated on the ballot, but that the corporate board of John Mackey's Corporation is intolerant of petitioning on their property.
2) According to John Mackey, from the first email that he responded to me in, dated Thu 8/07/08 10:16 AM, Mackey writes: “Each of our 11 Regions has their own solicitation policies, which is consistent with our decentralization philosophy. Some of our Regions choose to not allow solicitation on our private property because once we allow one group to do so, then we have to allow everyone else to do so. In our experience there are many groups who wish to solicit that have agendas that are harmful to Whole Foods Market (such as Labor Unions) and too many solicitors can also be very annoying to our customers. Some of our Regions solve the issue by not allowing any solicitation on our private property.”

The “decentralization philosophy” is just fluff. It's not decentralized at all to defer a decision to a corporate board that hides behind corporate lawyers, no matter that there are apparently 11 such boards. Also, this means that Mackey was lying when he said such decisions are decentralized to the store level.

Just so the other “armchair activists” on this board who have been agreeing with Mackey without really thinking for themselves can see why I'm “so angry”, maybe I should reprint the original letter in its entirety, with a response ot each of Mackey's fallacious and dishonest arguments. If I find a way to do colored text, I'll do that, otherwise, it gets too hard to tell who is whom in the back and forth.

If there is anyone here (other than Andy, who already roughly agrees with me) who wants that rebuttal, I will post it. Otherwise, I'm content to let Whole Foods continue in its quiet support for fascism unmolested by my troublesome words.

BTW: I will concede one more point to Mackey: John Mackey has the right to say that he's done more for individual freedom than I have, so long as he's donated more money to the LP than was lost by them overcoming intolerance to polite political speech in public areas.

I will also point out that although it has always been possible for Americans to be lawfully denied their right to free speech in a privately-owned public place, the First Amendment was designed to make that the scorned exception, rather than the respected rule. I'm glad that non-identified libertarians like Tony Schiano understand that, even if some self-identified libertarians like John Mackey do not. Then again, T.J. Rodgers also seems to have a healthy respect for free speech, since when he found out that his alma mater (Dartmouth College) was denying free expression on campus, using the same arguments made by John Mackey in their defense, he infiltrated their board of trustees by petition, and reversed their un-libertarian policies. So maybe the luke-warm defense of free speech is simply a characteristic of John Mackey's libertarianism, and not of all libertarianism, per se.]]>

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There may perhaps be one option for consideration to allow petitioners a specific location in front of our stores. We could identify a space for groups to petition our customers without negatively impacting the customers’ experience as they enter our stores. Of course, there would be conditions agreed to before permission to solicit is granted

That would seem to me to cover the bases pretty thoroughly – groups or individuals could reserve a particular time to run a ‘community outreach’ table (which might include petitioning, or might not). Having the petitioners (or other outreach people) behind a table would allow for the comfort of shoppers who disfavor being approached, but allow those who are interested to freely approach.

This is known as “tabling” a petitioner. It can be good or bad, but either way, it is a limit on common-sense allowal of normal and polite interpersonal speech. (What children we've become that politely asking someone to sign a ballot access petition is seen as potentially threatening to one's clientele! Even if it were true, which is rare, does Mackey really want those people as his customers more than he wants libertarians? If so, he can have them! ) Being tabled often results in people not being asked to sign, because in order for them to be asked, the petitioner would need to speak in an impolitely loud tone of voice. In a foot-traffic thoroughfare, people are quickly walking by, and are not looking for petitions, because they've never seen them before in this location, (or any location). “Tabling” then typically results in the table being placed in an unreasonable or out-of-the-way location, so that an institution can appear to tolerate speech without actually tolerating effective speech.

In addition, this arrangement it more annoying to everyone than simply relying on the petitioner's common sense in avoiding those who want to be avoided. Duhhh. Is a petition that offers pro-freedom political choice that threatening? “…Land of the free, home of the brave?!”

That said, it appears that if Whole Foods followed Ken's advice, it would be a step in the right direction. If it was actually followed with the intention of allowing speech, and not the immediate prior “out-of-the-way tabling” phenomenon of putting someone far out of foot traffic and then claiming that “people could sign if they (were more interested and aware than anyone actually is) wanted to!”

My opinion? It's polite political speech and petition-signing that we're asking for. It is the bare minimum speech required so that our government does not turn into a mass-murdering democidal dictatorship. It contains no swearing, rudeness, or anger (all of which make successful ballot access petitioning impossible). If you want to call yourself a libertarian CEO of a grocery store that is open to public foot traffic, then you should tolerate that kind of speech, or be revealed as vastly less libertarian than the 1997-2007 CEO of Giant Foods, who did not publicly claim to be a “libertarian who believes in corporate responsibility”.

We asked for this simple kindness and this incredibly minimal aid to the cause of individual liberty that is actually necessary to maintaining a market that is free enough to sell groceries. Rather than be thanked, we were threatened with arrest if we did not leave. Wow!

When we questioned further, rather than correcting the error, we were met with dishonest “straw man” arguments. (Such as “Whole Foods already allows petitioning on the public sidewalks in front of our stores” …LOL)

Finally I had to say: AS much as I like the quality of Whole Foods' products, I am a human being who understands the meaning of the word libertarian. I read Reason Magazine! I also understand when I am being pissed on and told it's raining. Don't tell me you believe that I SHOULD HAVE A “RIGHT” to stand in front of your store and shop there, but that from a libertarian perspective, it's proper for me to give up that “right” if I ask anyone to sign a ballot access petition. (The term “right” is used here as Mackey's insinuation, when he asked if I had been “discriminated” against. He believes he has no “right” to control his own property, or he'd be allowed to discriminate against communists, while allowing capitalists to petition. Which addresses the bogus argument from Ken above, such that “If we allowed anyone, we'd have to allow everyone”) If I politely speak in front of it to individual patrons in a reasonable, unamplified voice, in the service of a freedom that the CEO himself says he himself wishes to obtain, only then is there a “problem” worthy of security being called. That is completely insulting to my intelligence, or it is terribly cowardly. Neither is acceptable if we are actually going to move towards freedom in the USA. ]]>

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